(Senior) Engineering Team Lead, AdTech

Company Description

Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 29 countries today, 25 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

Working in Product Development at Wolt

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people. 

The behind the scenes of Wolt is run by an awesome bunch of over 400+ planners, builders, designers and data crunchers. We call ourselves Product+, as we’re the very core of Wolt’s products, tools and platforms. To build our products, we work in over 40  cross-functional, independent and autonomous teams. Teams are made up of a mix of talented individuals: engineers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and product leads. Each team takes ownership for solving customer problems in the best possible way.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

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Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Team  Lead or Senior Engineering Team Lead to build our AdTech development team. You’ll focus on building a platform for Brands to advertise within our surfaces. 

The AdTech team has been building and growing over the last years and is quickly becoming an important revenue centre within Wolt. We have two teams, one focusing on serving our Merchants, and one focusing on Brands, of which the Brands team in particular is much earlier in the journey and still building a foundational platform. These two teams have the awesome responsibility of creating an advertising platform that will allow brands and merchants to connect with our highly engaged audience through our food delivery and other verticals. 

In terms of tech, Kotlin is the main backend programming language of the team, TypeScript and React for frontend, Swift & Kotlin for Native Mobile.In terms of architecture, we are taking into use event-driven solutions more and more (Kafka etc.), and it’s a work in progress so you will get to be part of making that happen for your team and the group. As for databases, we use PostgreSQL & Redis and collect lots of data into SnowFlake. Our SRE stack is built around DataDog. and it’s a work in progress so you will get to be part of making that happen for your team and the group. We work in a cross-functional environment and right now the team consists of backend, frontend as well as data scientist & analyst and a Product Lead and we’re rapidly growing our ranks by looking to add more frontend and mobile competence during the year.
 

About You

You’ve built a lot of software – shipped products, created platforms, tools and modules, worked with every framework under the sun and have worked on Adtech products serving thousands of users both as an engineer and later, a lead. You’re as excited as we are about learning every day, and solving really hard engineering problems that no one else is. You've also operated services and/or scaled software at a high level, ensuring customer up-time and safety are your foremost tenets.

You're passionate about software quality, repeatability, testability and maintainability in production. When you need clarity, you go to the product owner – or even a user – and talk to them until you get it. When you need results, you are relentless in getting results, and never throw your hands up in defeat because your slack message goes un-replied, but instead find ways to get what you need.

As the leader of the team, you inspire, facili